The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volumen11C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley., 1765 |
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... hath employed a judicious fecretary to collect fuch as may be moft useful for the Publick . And , although we do not intend to expose our own perfons by mentioning names , yet we are fo far from requiring the fame caution in our our ...
... hath employed a judicious fecretary to collect fuch as may be moft useful for the Publick . And , although we do not intend to expose our own perfons by mentioning names , yet we are fo far from requiring the fame caution in our our ...
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... hath frequent- ly given fo very agreeable an entertainment [ d ] . Caton . Although an evil taste be very apt to pre- vail , both here and in London ; yet there is a [ d ] See letters to and from Doctor Swift , printed at the end of Mr ...
... hath frequent- ly given fo very agreeable an entertainment [ d ] . Caton . Although an evil taste be very apt to pre- vail , both here and in London ; yet there is a [ d ] See letters to and from Doctor Swift , printed at the end of Mr ...
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... hath a tafte for true bumour will find an hundred inftances of it in those volumes printed in France under the name of Le Theatre Italien ; to fay nothing of Rabe- lais , Cervantes , and many others . Now I take the comedy , or farce ...
... hath a tafte for true bumour will find an hundred inftances of it in those volumes printed in France under the name of Le Theatre Italien ; to fay nothing of Rabe- lais , Cervantes , and many others . Now I take the comedy , or farce ...
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... hath to be vi- cious . If I ridicule the follies and corrupti- ons of a court , a miniftry , or a fenate , are they not amply paid by penfions , titles , and power , while I expect , and defire , no other reward , than that of laughing ...
... hath to be vi- cious . If I ridicule the follies and corrupti- ons of a court , a miniftry , or a fenate , are they not amply paid by penfions , titles , and power , while I expect , and defire , no other reward , than that of laughing ...
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... hath been fomewhat fin- gular in the courfe of his fortunes ; for it hath happened , that , after fourteen years at- tending the court , with a large ftock of real merit , a modeft and agreeable conversation , a hundred promifes , and ...
... hath been fomewhat fin- gular in the courfe of his fortunes ; for it hath happened , that , after fourteen years at- tending the court , with a large ftock of real merit , a modeft and agreeable conversation , a hundred promifes , and ...
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Página 16 - I demand whether I have not as good a Title to Laugh, as Men have to be Ridiculous, and to expose Vice, as another hath to be Vicious.
Página 45 - ... which he told me would save half a mile's riding. This last piece of civility had like to have cost me dear, being once or twice in danger of my neck, by leaping over his ditches, and at last forced to alight in the dirt, when my horse, having slipped his bridle, ran away, and took us up more than an hour to recover him again. It is evident, that none of the absurdities I met with in this visit proceeded from an ill intention, but from a wrong judgment of complaisance, and a misapplication in...
Página 45 - I desired at my usual hour to go to my repose, and was conducted to my chamber by the gentleman, his lady, and the whole train of children. They importuned me to drink...
Página 43 - I should drink it off; for she was sure it would do me good after coming out of the cold air; and I was forced to obey, which absolutely took away my stomach.
Página 51 - If a man of wit, who died forty years ago, were to rise from the grave on purpose, how would he be able to read this letter? and after he had got through that difficulty, how would he be able to understand it...
Página 53 - These are the false Refinements in our Style which you ought to correct: First, by Argument and fair Means; but if those fail, I think you are to make Use of your Authority as Censor, and by an annual Index Expurgatorius...
Página 49 - But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language, I here...
Página 43 - ... is employed in laying chains and fetters upon us, in debarring us of our wishes, and in crossing our most reasonable desires and inclinations.
Página 52 - I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Página 52 - Battalions: as numerous as they are, if they attack us too frequently in our coffee-houses, we shall certainly put them to flight, and cut off the rear.